Department of
Veterans Affairs-Employee Education
System Extends Licensing Agreement for
HiSoftware Web Management Solutions
Concord, NH March
29, 2005 – HiSoftware Company
announced today that the Department of
Veterans Affairs Employee Education
System (EES) has extended its
licensing agreement for HiSoftware
Company content quality and
accessibility solutions. This extends
a licensing agreement that the VA-EES
originally entered into in February of
2003 through the end of the 2006
fiscal year. Through this agreement,
both HiSoftware Company’s desktop and
back-end server side software
solutions will be utilized for
evaluation, remediation and ongoing
monitoring of EES intranet web sites
and Web applications for conformance
to both statutory and organizational
accessibility and content quality
standards.
Under the terms of
the agreement, HiSoftware Company will
provide its AccVerify DS2 2005,
AccRepair DS2 2005 and AccMonitor
Compliance Server 2005 software to EES
for use by its webmasters, application
developers, and compliance experts. In
addition to “out-of-the-box” testing
and reporting for Accessibility,
Privacy, Metadata, Site Structure and
Usability standards, HiSoftware
solutions allow an organization’s
experts and/or policy managers to
define content policies and then
provides a solution to validate
compliance with these policies.
HiSoftware’s end-to-end software
solutions enable customers to
proactively manage online privacy.
HiSoftware solutions allow users to
monitor Web sites for data collection,
security and sharing practices, opt-in
and opt-out choices, broken links,
missing privacy policies, third party
linking, P3P and the use of tracking
technologies. The final result is a
complete and concise report on the
total accessibility, quality and
policy compliance status of content
that has been tested.
VA-EES Web
application developers will utilize
HiSoftware’s back-end automated
AccMonitor Compliance Server 2005 for
scheduled and on demand testing as
well as HiSoftware’s user-driven
interactive desktop solutions,
AccVerify DS2 2005 and AccRepair DS2
2005 to test and remediate their
projects for compliance with Section
508 accessibility standards, Section
208 privacy standards, and other
content quality standards.
HiSoftware’s accessibility testing
solutions test for over 187
comprehensive accessibility checks and
for the level of compliance
recommended by the U.S Government's
Section 508 legislation. These
solutions also include HiSoftware Link
Validation Utility, which assists with
quality and accessibility assurance by
scanning and analyzing web content for
broken links, producing detailed
reports to help developers and quality
assurance professionals pinpoint and
fix content, interaction, and
usability defects. Through this
agreement, the VA-EES team also
licenses HiSoftware Hi-Caption
solutions for multimedia captioning.
The Department of Veterans
Affairs-Employee Education System
joins a growing list of Federal
government agencies turning to
HiSoftware Company for content quality
and accessibility compliance
solutions, including the U.S. Army
Materiel Command, Internal Revenue
Service and Department of Defense.
HiSoftware Company also works with
Fortune 1000 corporations including
Microsoft Corporation, Mercury
Interactive, and Fidelity Investments,
State and local government agencies
and educational institutions:
http://www.hisoftware.com/access/scustomers.html
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About HiSoftware
HiSoftware Company, the leader in
enterprise content quality management
solutions, provides innovative
products that empower quality
assurance teams, content developers,
Web site architects, and company
executives to work collaboratively on
their efforts to create and manage
corporate Web standards for
Accessibility, Privacy, Searchability,
Usability and custom guidelines and
policies. HiSoftware’s integrated,
full-lifecycle solutions dramatically
reduce the time required to test,
manage and deploy e-business Web
sites.
HiSoftware works closely with industry
leaders and visionaries to provide
solutions for today's information
accessibility, content quality, search
and retrieval needs. HiSoftware’s
customers represent Fortune 500
companies, and many of the largest
e-commerce, government, and
educational sites in North America and
around the world and include
ChevronTexaco, Commerce One, Mercury
Interactive, and Microsoft Government.
Founded in 1998, HiSoftware Company
maintains North American corporate
headquarters in Concord, New
Hampshire. Further information about
HiSoftware can be found online at
www.hisoftware.com
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HiSoftware is a
trademark of Hiawatha Island Software
Company, Inc. Any and all other
product and company names mentioned
herein are the trademarks or service
marks of their respective owners.
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investor relations website at:
http://www.hisoftware.com/co/investor_relations.htm
All information in this release is as
of March 29 2005. The company
undertakes no duty to update any
forward-looking statement to conform
the statement to actual results or
changes in the company's expectations.
